Discover New York Partners with University of Göttingen’s Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
This fall semester, a collaboration is taking place between a course at St. John’s, Discover New York, and one in Germany entitled Anthropology and Climate Justice: Research Practice in the City. This...
GOLE Brings Students and Cultural Understanding Together to Apply Counterterrorism and Intelligence Strategies in Homeland Security Program
One of my primary responsibilities as an educator is preparing students to be successful when they enter the workforce. As a faculty member in the Homeland Security programs at St. John’s many of my...
International Spotlight on St. John’s Gilman Scholars
“Journals to Journeys” follows six St. John’s Gilman Scholars as they prepare for their new destinations abroad and their first impressions once there. The Benjamin A. Gilman and Gilman-McCain...
New Rule Helps International Students and Legal Immigrants in Need
This fall, the US Department of Homeland Security published a change to the public charge rule. Prior to this change, nonimmigrants were prohibited by US law from becoming a public charge. A public...
St. John’s and Lebanese American University Graduate Students Work in Virtual Teams on International Business Strategies and Policies for MENA Region Organizations
In collaboration with Dr. Grace K. Dagher from Adnan Kassar School of Business, Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon, I implemented a Global Online Learning Exchange (GOLE) project in my...
Students Explore Museum Artifacts and Develop Intercultural Competence in Collaboration Between St. John’s Museum Informatics and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Intercultural Competence (IC) in hands-on projects within the virtual exchange environment encompasses teaching and learning practices that connect locally dispersed teachers and students to learn and...
Linguistically and Culturally Appropriate Language Assessment: A GOLE Collaboration
In the fall of 2022, Tinashe Nhokwara, MSc in Audiology, Shahdeedah Aufe, and I ran a six- week Global Online Learning Exchange (GOLE) course between 20 St John’s undergraduates majoring in Speech...
Reflection on a Global Online Learning Exchange Partnership with ESIEE Paris
My first-year writing students worked on a Global Online Learning Exchange (GOLE) project, “Writing and Thinking in the Globally Connected Digital World,” during the spring semester. The class worked...
Criando Communidade: Global Online Learning Exchange in Applied Behavior Analysis Partners with Universidade Federal de Pelotas in Brazil
I brought to life the Global Online Learning Exchange (GOLE) project in my graduate class in Applied Behavior Analysis in the Fall 2021 semester after anxiously waiting for a year due to the pandemic...
Friends of Fulbright Argentina Returns
St. John’s University’s Office of International Education hosted the Friends of Fulbright Argentina program this spring after a two-year hiatus due to pandemic restrictions. It is the fourth time the...